Mathematics has no symbols for confused ideas.

...it is distressing how often one can guess the answer given to an economic question merely by knowing who asks it.

I attended schools in Seattle through the University of Washington, from which I was graduated in 1931. I spent the next year at Northwestern University.

The main insight learned from interdisciplinary studies is the return to specialization

Competition is a tough weed, not a delicate flower.

There is only one social science and we are its practitioners

If you never miss a plane, you’re spending too much time at the airport.

My teaching began in 1936 at Iowa State College where T. W. Schultz was the department chairman.

I recall my mother asking in about 1946 what I was and I replied proudly that I was a professor. A decade later she repeated her question and I repeated my answer. "No promotion?" was her comment.

Theories are not rejected by cirsumstantial evidence: it takes a theory to beat a theory.

It was in the 1960s that I began the detailed study of public regulation.

Always spend your time adding value to your life

Kaku, the aamti is excellent. Did you put ghee in the daal when it was boiling?

The sea is a desert of waves, A wilderness of water.

Sometimes it is better to work out the map for yourself rather than have it given to you, in terms of learning.

I've read 'Valley of the Dolls' at least four times. It's so epic!

No happy person can be quite so impervious to pain (Gail Wynand to Dominique Francon)

When we come to know who we truly are, we will see ourselves in all people.

There are some actors who are rehearsal actors, and some who are not. I am not. Having said that, I don't know what I am talking about.

Men seldom understand any laws but those they feel.

The mind gives us thousands of ways to say no, but there's only one way to say yes, and that's from the heart.